On Tuesday 09 February 2010 06:37:38 [email protected] wrote: > > Those of you who are running 64 bit versions of Ubuntu . . are there any > > pitfalls? Any problems with applications? Speed? > > Pitfalls are usually encountered when running poorly written proprietary > apps, but are always able to be worked around. Anything available in a > source tarball, or packaged in a repository, will work without any > issues though.
Jeremy, utter respect, but this is soapbox crap. If *you* installed your environment correctly then good, bad and indifferent software will run the same on a 32 or on a 64 OS. > > For example, I ran XLink Kai <http://www.teamxlink.co.uk/> the other > day, which is basically and Xbox multiplayer tunneling app, allowing you > to set up ad-hoc multiplayer games, bypassing Xbox Live. > > The app is a proprietary 32-bit Linux binary, which requires wxWindows > installed. Because I run 64-bit Linux, when I install the required > libwxbase2.6-0 package, kaiengine complained that it couldn't find the > libraries. > > I did have the libraries, but the 64-bit versions. 32-bit applications > require 32-bit libraries. So I downloaded the i386 libwxbase2.6-0 > package, extracted it relative to kaiengine, and then launched it like > this: You say 'I did have the libraries' but that is wrong you did not have the libraries. > $ LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/home/jeremy/Applications/kai/usr/lib ./kaiengine > > Which made the application work fine. > > On the other hand, some precompiled 32-bit applications (for example, > Google Earth, Second Life, or Skype) work fine with no tweaks. My main > point in showing you the above example is that while some things may not > appear to work, there is always a way to get it working, even if you > have to resort to grabbing the odd library (or if you're really screwed, > you can run your app in a 32-bit chroot — I for one would be happy to > help you set that up if you ever need it). I accept your opinion and your experiences <smile> but your woes would not have got me as I'm an old fart and to wit wiser. I'm not writing this to show that *you* ... anything ... but I've googled and found nearly 10 year old slug posts that I wrote. So my comments are for anyone who reads this for reference and guidance. James -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
